Being Quote by Emily Maitlis

I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.

— Emily Maitlis

I'd like to get up and instantly have perfectly blow-dried hair.

— Emily Maitlis

I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish.

— Emily Maitlis

It is the little things that throw me - the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I…

— Emily Maitlis

I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe, then sun…

— Emily Maitlis

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going…

— Emily Maitlis

Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray into something…

— Emily Maitlis

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

— Emily Maitlis

Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.

— Emily Maitlis

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense…

— Emily Maitlis

I don't think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It's about why something won't work, which…

— Emily Maitlis

I think increasingly I really come to appreciate the people, the politicians, the interviewees, of any stripe and size who are able to answer…

— Emily Maitlis